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Software Engineer, Databases
$184K–$257K
Bellevue, WA +1 · Full-time · Posted Jun 24, 2026
- Location
- Bellevue, WA
Menlo Park, CA - Experience
- 8+ years of systems software engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Architects and evolves large-scale systems and database infrastructure, improving performance, reliability, and scalability while guiding technical strategy and engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction and design systems infrastructure, platform components, and database modernization efforts.
- Resolve complex performance, reliability, and correctness issues; develop testing and verification methods.
- Use AI tools and automation to improve development workflows, performance analysis, and observability.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience architecting and owning large-scale systems infrastructure and driving technical roadmaps.
- Experience resolving complex systems-level performance, reliability, or correctness issues.
- Experience defining engineering standards and verification methods; communicating architecture and technical strategy.
Nice to have
- Experience with database internals, distributed database systems, consensus protocols, or highly available data infrastructure.
- Experience applying AI and machine learning to database optimization.
Pay
$183,997/year to $257,000/year USD base salary
Tools
operating system interfaces, runtime environments, distributed infrastructure, kernel interfaces, memory management, concurrency, inter-process communication, Raft or Paxos
AI focus
Uses AI tooling and automation to accelerate systems development, identify performance bottlenecks, and improve observability and debugging; applies AI and machine learning to database optimization. Posting also requests ongoing AI skill development and responsible AI practices.
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